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Tenosique is a town located inTenosique Municipality in the southeastern corner of thestate ofTabasco, inMexico. Its official name isTenosique de Pino Suárez. The town had a 2020 census population of 34,946 inhabitants (the fourth-largest community in the state afterVillahermosa,Cárdenas, andComalcalco), while the municipality had a population of 62,310.
From theMaya words "Tana" or house and "tsiic" weaving or counting threads. Which leaves us with "casa de los hilanderos " or "House of Weavers or thread counters".
Tenosique was founded c. 1000 B.C. in thePreclassic Maya Period (according to Magnolia Paz Nexo in her bookTenosique Prehispánico y Colonial edited by the Government of Tabasco). Since then Tenosique has been occupied uninterruptedly. Vice President and national hero of the Revolution,José María Pino Suárez was born in Tenosique in 1869, and the town now bears his name.
Tenosique is on theUsumacinta River, downstream from where the river emerges from theCañón del Usumacinta onto the plains of Tabasco.
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 28.3 (82.9) | 30.1 (86.2) | 32.4 (90.3) | 34.7 (94.5) | 35.6 (96.1) | 34.1 (93.4) | 33.4 (92.1) | 33.4 (92.1) | 33 (91) | 31.3 (88.3) | 30.1 (86.2) | 28.6 (83.5) | 32.1 (89.8) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 19 (66) | 19.7 (67.5) | 21 (70) | 22.7 (72.9) | 23.6 (74.5) | 23.3 (73.9) | 22.6 (72.7) | 22.7 (72.9) | 22.9 (73.2) | 22.1 (71.8) | 20.8 (69.4) | 19.5 (67.1) | 21.7 (71.1) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 110 (4.3) | 71 (2.8) | 61 (2.4) | 69 (2.7) | 140 (5.6) | 260 (10.4) | 200 (8) | 240 (9.3) | 360 (14.1) | 280 (11) | 140 (5.6) | 120 (4.8) | 2,100 (81) |
| Source: Weatherbase[1] | |||||||||||||
Tenosique is also the site of a railway station on theTren Maya.[2]
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17°28′32″N91°25′21″W / 17.47556°N 91.42250°W /17.47556; -91.42250 (Tenosique de Pino Suárez)
